Patents by Inventor Kazuki KUZU

Kazuki KUZU has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11842661
    Abstract: A control method is performed by an information display system displaying information on one or more display units included in a vehicle. The information display system executes guidance processing for guiding a line of sight of a driver of the vehicle toward a display unit which is not in the line of sight. The control method including: obtaining vicinity information indicating a state of vicinity of the vehicle from a device outside the vehicle; determining whether or not the driver should pay more attention to the state of the vicinity indicated in the vicinity information than the information displayed on the one or more display units; and executing control for suppressing the guidance processing when it is determined that the driver should pay more attention to the state of the vicinity than the information displayed on the one or more display units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuki Kuzu, Koki Doi, Masakazu Nakazawa
  • Publication number: 20230205314
    Abstract: A display control device includes: at least one display, among a plurality of displays, that displays a message; storage that stores a first table for displaying the message; and a processing unit that determines, when information about a vehicle is generated and a display is present in an eye-gaze direction of the user that an eye-gaze detector detects, whether to cause the display to display the message, based on the first table and the eye-gaze direction detected, the display being one of the plurality of displays.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mutsumi KAWAGOE, Nobutaka KITAJIMA, Kenji OGA, Masakazu NAKAZAWA, Naoki IKEMOTO, Junya YUSA, Kazuki KUZU
  • Publication number: 20230111941
    Abstract: A display control device is a device that controls four display devices provided in an automobile, and includes: four image generating units that generate four on-screen displays; a setting unit that sets a color display mode as a set display mode; and an image processing unit that unifies a color display mode of each of the four on-screen displays generated to the set display mode, and display each of the four on-screen displays that have been unified to the set display mode on a different one of the four display devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junya YUSA, Kazuki KUZU
  • Publication number: 20230100504
    Abstract: A control method is performed by an information display system displaying information on one or more display units included in a vehicle. The information display system executes guidance processing for guiding a line of sight of a driver of the vehicle toward a display unit which is not in the line of sight. The control method including: obtaining vicinity information indicating a state of vicinity of the vehicle from a device outside the vehicle; determining whether or not the driver should pay more attention to the state of the vicinity indicated in the vicinity information than the information displayed on the one or more display units; and executing control for suppressing the guidance processing when it is determined that the driver should pay more attention to the state of the vicinity than the information displayed on the one or more display units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuki KUZU, Koki DOI, Masakazu NAKAZAWA